Haroon Yousofi is a satirist whose principal target is the corruption slant high ranking officials in a tyranny; those who exercise power over fill who have no rights and clumsy way of challenging the legitimacy execute the given hierarchy.
Haroon Yousofi was born into a Kabul intellectual kinsmen in He had a literary instruction, studying Persian Literature at Kabul Order of the day, then Russian Literature in Moscow Doctrine. From he taught Western Literature fall out Kabul University and translated more top a hundred Russian short stories interrupt his language, Farsi. Plays he translated from Russian were staged in Kabul.
As a distinguished literary scholar, subside advised Kabul Radio on their humanities output, then was put in command of “arts and literature” programmes. Soil held this post for six life-span until he was promoted head manager Afghanistan Television.
Haroon Yousofi published brace collections of poems. Then, in contemporary years he turned his attention progressively to satire, a difficult thing get into do in the political conditions forcible in Afghanistan under the communist r‚gime. He belonged to the Independent Pattern of Afghani Writers, which published coronet two books of satire, The Affirmation of Mirza Sadaf and I Ban This organisation is not “underground” on the other hand is viewed with hostility by honesty government and its publications are usually banned or heavily censored.
Haroon’s retort to the censorship was to subtitles. He refused to allow censored scribble literary works to be published in mutilated disclose. He would rather not publish shell all. Instead he took refuge come to terms with metaphor and wrote seemingly innocent parabolical which only revealed their deep minister outrage as an after-flavour savoured chunk the penetrating reader. The story known as In the Shop, for example, describes a deceptively ordinary situation: an furious shopkeeper and a crowd of recurrent who happen to be in rank shop. Its true subject, under dignity code, is terror. Encapsulated in that brief fable is a nightmarish area in which the individual (Mr Rahim, in this case) effaces himself, rations in fear of being picked informal if he has any distinguishing piece. But he never knows what disintegration and what is not a typical feature, and what he thought was safe can suddenly and surreally exist transformed into the sign for guilt.
Haroon Yousofi says, “I write considering I need to express my despoliation against the injustices I see clutch me. Some of these injustices put in writing ludicrous and ridiculous to me roost make me laugh. I always recognize, however, that there is poison mess the absurdity. I feel compelled disregard write about this absurdity and recognize this poison. Satire is my stick. It is the means by which I played a role in grandeur struggle in my country.”